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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Backlisted

Backlisted Podcast

Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In a special live edition of Backlisted, recorded in front of an audience at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, John and Andy are joined by Mark Haddon, author of 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time' and Sally Bayley, author and tutor in English at Balliol and St. Hugh's Colleges, Oxford. The panel discuss Jacob's Room, the third novel from Virginia Woolf. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 4'42 - Love, Madness, FIshing by Dexter Petley 9'30 - The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico 15'42 - Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We've left our usual haunt of the kitchen table of our sponsors unbound,

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the website which brings readers and writers together to create something special.

1:22.4

Instead we're gathered together in the augusts surroundings of the windowless basement

1:26.0

of the legendary Blackwell's bookshop in the Norrington room.

1:30.0

In front of an erudite, well read it. Let's face it, downright ravishing audience.

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I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound.

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And I'm Andy Miller.

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I'm the author of the year of reading dangerously.

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And joining us today are Mark Haddon and Sally Bailey.

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